From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 14:13: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D3437B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D8543FA7 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003020522125705200dtndde>; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:13:06 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEEF4846D; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:13:56 -0500 (EST) From: mav@wastegate.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Neil Darlow Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:12:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Correct installer behaviour? Message-ID: <3E414600.10689.205CFFC@localhost> In-reply-to: <200302041941.h14Jf7ka076236@router.darlow.co.uk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 4 Feb 2003 at 19:40, Neil Darlow wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD-5.0-RELEASE onto a dual IDE disk system. > > I have created a single slice on each drive (ad0s1 and ad2s1) then attempted > to create some disklabel partitions on each. > > For drive ad0 creating a FS partition gives ad0s1a and a SWAP partition gives > ad0s1b - fine so far. > > For drive ad2 creating a FS partition gives ad2s1d and a SWAP partition gives > ad2s1b - this seems odd. > > Why isn't the first partition on ad2 ad2s1a? Is this correct behaviour or is > it a bug? I think you'll find that b is the default location for the swap partition, at least the first swap partition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message